I always stand up for what I believe in and what is right even if it means standing alone...In life standing up for your rights is never easy but it is very important to embark on this Long and difficult path to enforce and protect your individual and consumer rights.We all must be aware of our rights.In exercising our rights are we truly free individuals.

I have won many long customer battles against Banks,Phone Companies, Airlines, Electronics Companies etc. I have devoted time and energy to demand positive resolutions for myself and people around me. I hate it when one is denied what every customer has a right to...and that is when I find it important to address it and complain about it. I know it takes time to escalate matters but somehow I prefer to address it no matter what. Having lived in America for sometime, I give a lot of importance to Individual Rights.

It is my nephew who inspired me to write this blog. He felt the importance of his rights and the need to address this subject in a blog very early in age when he was unhappy with the services of a certain Airline. It was then that he suggested that I should write a blog concerning such matters too.

Everyone has certain rights but we are usually not informed about them or do not exercise them. We have a right to be heard...and we must never forget that. There is One Right for All and None should be discriminated. One has the right to question and a right to information. With growing middle class touch 400 million and consumerism, Indian Companies need to become responsive to Consumer complaints and grievances. Ignoring such complaints could lead to big financial losses for the company on consumer complaints being upheld by Consumer Courts.

In this blog, I would like us to share our knowledge about how best to address our complaints effectively as a customer or consumer. It is also important to inform people about the poor customer services provided by reputed brand names. But I would also like to hi-light the names of companies and brands who have co-operated with customers and given positive responses. Please do share your experiences too.

You do not win every battle in life but you learn lessons from it and hopefully live to win it some day. Through this blog ,I would like to inspire people to stand up for their rights and if needed fight for it but the fight for your rights has to be fair and honest. I aim to create a direction and awareness for people who are not given their due rights as an individual first and then as a consumer. There are always solutions and there are way to reach those solutions or alternatives as customers through proper channels.

Whenever you have been able to get your rights heard, you should generously share that knowledge as how best to achieve that so that others could follow that too. Pay it forward ! We should share knowledge and in doing so we will learn more from each other. Alone you can stand up for your rights but with people behind you and with you , there will be more force in it and consumers and customers will not be taken for granted. United we stand in getting value for our hard earned money...United we stand in ensuring we get good customer service.

When there is a will there is a way. When you stand up for your rights and for others , somebody will listen to you sooner or later. Your voice will be heard ! But for that you have to speak out ! Silence can sometimes be mistaken as weakness or indifference. Always know your rights and request for those rights to be implemented but if they are not then demand that justice be served.


Always stand up for your rights...

Consumer Rights Consumer Might !

" Sadaa Haq Aithe Rakh ! "

"Manzil mushkil to Kya... Humhe to us rah par chalna hi hai..."


Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Vodafone's Misleading Customer Service & Indifference

Vodafone's lies and discriminatory attitude towards me has shocked me. Instead of making up for their mistake and the carelessness of their staff, they are harassing me. Instead of fixing responsibility on Abhishek and Ms. Chauhan for their lack of co-ordination and not doing their work rightly, they are making me suffer. I said the same to Ms. Chauhan again in our conversation on the telephone today.

My calls were barred for so many days without investigating the matter despite my repeated emails to them that I had submitted my updated documents. They may have activated my calls today after so many days of harassment but along with it they have caused me more harassment and trauma.To add to it , because of the mishandling of my complaint by the Nodal Office and their deactivating my account, now with the fresh activation of my account I am being charged for services that I had deactivated or never subscribed to. This is so unfair !

Last month on the 20th of May, I had deactivated the ISD call 55 pack and confirmed the same with their Customer Services executive and Manager. Reference number is 2564011888.  After that I have called so many times till about 2-3 days before my billing cycle to re-confirm the same and everytime I was assured that it has been done and that from the next billing cycle I will not be charged. They also told me that I would receive a SMS confirming that the pack has been deactivated on the 6th of June. But because of Nodal's fault and their restoring my account after so long, now I have received a SMS stating that the pack is active on my number. So many others services that I did not subscribe to have been activated due to the confusion the Nodal Office created. Vodafone's customer service is misleading and deceptive. And Vodafone is continuing harassing and charging me for services that I had never activated.

Even when I submitted my updated documents, I was misled into believing that the same would be updated on my account and my calls will not be barred. I had insisted that I should get a written confirmation or reference number that I have submitted my updated documents but they refused. I was assured that since my documents are authentic and right, my calls will not be barred. In fact Abhishek returned my documents to me after that. Now that is what I am telling the Nodal Office that I cannot be held responsible for their staff not doing their work properly or not following it up. The fact is that I have submitted my updated documents and I can prove that in court. So why should I go and keep submitting the same documents over and over again ? It is wrong to expect me to do so now specially after the Nodal office not being sensitive to me all these days. In the first place the Nodal Office should have checked with the Vodafone store concerned and should have carried our an investigation to find out why their staff did not do their job properly. But instead the Nodal Office barred my calls without thorough investigation.

I wish to escalate this matter as far as it can go. And I will contact Vodafone World HQ too regarding the same. Let's see what their stance is. Responsibility has to be fixed and people have to be accountable for it as I have suffered so much with all this unfair treatment. I am in the right and so I have the right to state that I will not be contnuously harassed like this by being ordered and threatened to keep visiting the Vodafone store with updated documents when I have already done so on the 4th of June 2015.  Ms. Pathak, the Nodal a Officer Delhi has not given a fair resolution this time and she should have investigated the matter before deactivating my account. I have a Right to Information as to why this was not done. I want answers here. Justice had to be served !

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